Honors English: Life of Pi Test with 100% correct answers
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What did we learn about Pi from the Author's note? correct answersWhat he looks like and what his house looks like
What was strange about Pi's house? correct answersIt was stocked with food because he is afraid of running out like he did at sea
How did being out at sea affect Pi for the rest ...
What did we learn about Pi from the Author's note? correct answersWhat he looks like and what his
house looks like
What was strange about Pi's house? correct answersIt was stocked with food because he is afraid of
running out like he did at sea
How did being out at sea affect Pi for the rest of his life? correct answersHe wears jackets even if it is
warm out
How does the author's note affect the reader? correct answersIt lets the reader know Pi survived and
gives us insight on him after the events took place. It also makes the reader focus less on plot and action
and more on Pi's thoughts and emotions. It also sparks the reader's interest so they want to know what
Pi went through.
What is Pi's full name? correct answersPiscine Molitor
What does his name stand for or is described as? correct answers"It is a pool that the goods would love
to swim in."
How did classmates make fun of Pi's name? correct answersThey called him Pissing
How did Pi get his name? correct answersMr. Adirubasamy and Mamaji are close family friends to Pi and
talked of a pool they loved to swim in. Pi and his family learned to swim in it. The pool's name was
Piscine Molitor. His family loved the pool and so Pi was named after it. (Mr. Adirubasamy is the man Yann
Martel met that said, 'I have a story to tell you.')
How is the way Pi got his name ironic? correct answersHe is named after a pool and spends 227 days in
the ocean. Both are water, but pools are smaller and you can't predict ocean or drink it's water. Ocean is
also more dangerous.
, How does Pi get his classmates to stop making fun of his name? correct answersHe writes his name on a
chalk board with 3.14 so no one makes fun of it at a new school where he says he "found refuge"
through 3.14. His new nickname was Pi and no one called him Pissing.
How is 3.14 and Pi connected? correct answersScientists use 3.14 to understand the Universe and so is Pi
as a character, using religion to understand the world. 3.14 is an irrational number and Pi believes in
religion, which is also irrational.
Who is Mr. Kumar (In chapter 7)? correct answersPi's biology teacher, Communist, and avowed Atheist
(he was the first avowed atheist that Pi had met)
How did Mr. Kumar surprise Pi? correct answersHe is the first to tell Pi that there are no God's while at
the Zoo talking politics. He says only science is real and we can only believe what we see. Pi is stunned by
this and questions faith for the first time and how it could be "darkness", as Mr. Kumar calls it, as Pi
thinks it is "Light". Mr. Kumar says, "Why tolerate darkness? Everything is here and clear, if only we look
carefully." (Light vs Dark. Pi sees religion as good and enlightening while Kumar sees it as bad/dark)
What is the Zoo for Mr. Kumar? correct answersThe Zoo is Mr. Kumar's temple, the animals being a part
of nature and science to him as an Atheist
Why did Mr. Kumar become an Atheist? correct answersMr. Kumar is an Atheist because when he was
sick with Polio once he prayed for God, but God never came to help him
Why does Pi think Atheists are not much different then him as a religious person? correct
answersAtheists may not believe in God, but they believe in science, making them similar to Pi in the
sense that they both believe in something, making them "brothers and sisters" as Pi says and respects
Atheist's beliefs. He is also saying people have different reasons for believing in what they do and
eventually just decide on something to believe in; they build their reasons and then decide on a religion
("and then they jump/leap of fatih").
-"It was my first clue that the atheists are my brothers and sisters of a very different faith, and every
word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them- and then
they jump."
-"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
(Hesitation will not get you anywhere so take the leap of faith)
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